may be needed for international diplomacy on syria there's already a starter process involving turkey russia and iran but he told me that the u.s. needs to be among the countries at the table to decide the next steps for syria. out of the united nations now u.k. politicians are debating a proposed law that would give police more power to crackdown on protests activists say it's an assault on freedom of expression offices in london and more ready facing criticism over the handling of a vigil for a 33 year old woman was last seen alive as she walked home alone and was later killed in a hall with the support of. the right to peaceful protest to demonstrate one's views to be heard. potentially under threat in proposed legislation containing a range of new powers for the police overall the bill has many elements of it which are quite a thorough tyrion they defer to senior police officers on judgments as to whether something can be considered criminal and that particularly sits in the part of the bill which deals with protests so if protests are considered to be causing serious annoyance or disrup

trash mr foreign minister this is 1st time i thought draw any turkey and russia for to solve the syrian issue you know why and turkey and russia has military presence in syria qatar has not just kind of from on the ground regarding this and this possibility of being on the ground how old you defined the role of qatar can play at suny sure and as a follow on question what would you like to say for regarding timing of foundation of this trilateral. mechanism between qatar turkey and russia thank you. thank you very much. actually 1st of all syria matter is very closely linked to the hearts and minds of the terry people since the start of this crisis and qatar has been very active player since it started 10 years ago and in fact in the humanitarian seen as a major role in editing the needs and the lives of the people there in syria and we believe that there are now. urgent need to elevate the life condition of the syrian people over there and we are facing a lot of challenges because of this crisis and the continuation of this crisis adding to it another layer of the call that a crisis and

could return so the military situation the military presence is as this right now but besides turkey and russia now we see more players waning in like the united states also turkey is presence added on who wrote an article about the syrian. for the 10th year of the syrian uprising today it was published on bloomberg he's making a call for the united states to get actively engaged with turkey in order to. order to prepare a safe place for the syrians so that they can go back and to fight for democracy in syria and this is a military situation but of course at the military situation from time to. time is getting in tense as the spies the us than and source the peace process is signed by turkey iran and russia these ceasefires this peace process and from time to time are being violated and this fight those a great months of this fight all the international recognition of those military presence according to of course some circles these are not legal the turkish military for instance is being targeted so you see ringback russia is not willing to willing to give its influence to any other player thi

in other world news a foreign ministers of qatar russia and turkey have held talks here in doha they focused on finding a way to deliver human humanitarian aid to people in syria russia and turkey back opposing sides in syria's war now in its 10th year turkey's foreign minister has expressed hope for a breakthrough trouble that is not good that we are contributing without efforts for a sustainable political stability for syria of course unfortunately the conflict has been going on for 10 years and we have witnessed many unfortunate events our wish is to see that syria's legitimate request will find a result within the criteria of the united nations and turkey. there is bernard smith has more on the major issues discussed. well we're 10 years on from those 1st and the acid protests in syria and we're 4 years on from the russian led a start the process is bringing together russia iran and turkey to try and find a political solution to the crisis in that country but we seem to be no further on the survey lavrov russian's foreign russia's foreign minister said today this meeting between t

may be needed for international diplomacy on syria there's already a start up process involving turkey russia and iran but he told me that the u.s. needs to be among the countries at the table to decide the next steps for syria james bays out 0 at the united nations. in myanmar people in the ngo on a fleeing one of the districts put on the martial law local media are reporting columns of traffic and people on the roads as far as they can see the city became a battleground on monday a security forces escalated that crackdown on anti crew protests this activists say that at least 20 people were killed bank employees across india have called for a 2 day strike to condemn the government's decision to privatized public sector banks some services were affected as tens of thousands protested against the proposed plan the strike was called by the united form a bank union's umbrella organization representing 9 banking unions. the netherlands goes to the polls in a general election on wednesday the issue of race is playing a major part in campaigning the behind party says the country has failed to face

may be needed for international diplomacy on syria there's already a start up process involving turkey russia and iran but he told me that the u.s. needs to be among the countries at the table to decide the next steps for syria jamie outers era at the united nations. libya's interim unity government has been sworn in in a u.n. backed effort to bring stability and of elections in december but with an estimated $20000.00 foreign fighters in the country security will be a major task for the government while the train has more from the capital tripoli. after years of divisions libya's new unity government is formed in the eastern city of to brooke 35 ministers including the country's 1st female foreign minister were sworn into office. the ceremony was attended by members of parliament the new presidential council as well as several investors and broadcast on most t.v. channels here on what many are calling his story. their main goal to leave the country until nationwide elections are held in december and. now is the time to live instead to give each other and forget the past. after years of divis

may be needed for international diplomacy on syria there's already a start up process involving turkey russia and iran but he told me that the u.s. needs to be among the countries at the table to decide the next steps for syria is out as era at the united nations the u.s. now has its 1st ever native american cabinet secretary that hollande has been confirmed in the key job under castro as the details of history comes full circle in the confirmation of deb hollande as the u.s. secretary of the interior a member of the lagoon employable tribe of new mexico holland's family traces back 35 generations on american soil and like other native american peoples suffered centuries of mistreatment and a glatt from the very federal agency she will now lead this is storied nature of my confirmation is not lost on me but i will say it's not about me rather i hope this nomination would be an inspiration for americans moving forward together as one nation and creating opportunities for all of us elevating repsol and to lead the department of interior we reset the relationship between the federal government a

may be needed for international diplomacy on syria there's already a start up process involving turkey russia and iran but he told me that the u.s. needs to be among the countries at the table to decide the next steps for syria. out 0 at the united nations u.n. secretary general is also condemned the escalating military crackdown in me and ma and tonio called on the international community to help stop the killing the more funerals have been held after at least 50 protesters were killed on sunday the worst day of violence since the military overthrew the elected government in february activists say security forces killed another 20 people on monday now brazil's health minister has been replaced again as the corona virus outbreak hits record levels. will be the 4th person in charge since the pandemic began and replaces a military general who took the job back in may brazil's most populous state has introduced emergency restrictions to curb the rise in cases infection and death rates have been climbing rapidly in sao paulo the state's health care system is on the brink of collapse or up close i

may be needed for international diplomacy on syria there's already a start up process involving turkey russia and iran but he told me that the u.s. needs to be among the countries at the table to decide the next steps for syria. out to syria at the united nations a court in mali has dropped charges against a former military officer and several others accused of staging a coup in 2012 and charged with killing $21.00 of its soldiers during a rebellion nicholas has a story. not in his usual 4 star generals uniform but a gray suit former coup leader amadou son ago walks out of the tribunals a free man along with 15 other soldiers he no longer faces charges of torture killings and rape but this woman says she was among those on a go soldiers rounded up when he took power in a coup 2012 and she was held in captivity for 19 months and raped every night to her the court's decision is wrong it's over from ali did military can commit cruel acts criminal acts without ever having to face justice to court is in their hands even better day will use the law of amnesty and reconsideration to cover up their c

any foreign ministers of qatar russia and turkey have how talks in doha they focused on finding a way to deliver humanitarian aid to the people in syria russia and turkey back opposing sides in the conflicts. china has approved changes to limit democratic participation in hong kong's elections its annual national people's congress passed new laws to veto and screen candidates it follows mass protests in the semi-autonomous territory in 2019 calling for greater freedoms chinese foreign minister make a chances of reform that would ensure hong kong is governed by what he calls patriots who leave. the meeting made a decision of improving the election system of their own constitutional administrative region all delegates highly agreed and have expressed to the strong determination of the people of all ethnic groups of the country including holcombe patry it's to safeguard national sovereignty security and development interests and maintain the hong kong's constitutional. well hong kong's leader kerry lamb has welcomed the electoral reforms she says they are necessary to keep up people who

is looking broadly at the likes of turkey, russia, and this is a call coming through from golden sachsote is not necessarily about where u.s. treasury yields are and the rapid rise they've been seeing. goldman saying a sweet stock for e.m. stock is when they have fallen by 10 basis points or risen as much as 20. this could trigger additional downside f turkish equities underperform. russian equities tend to outperform. commodities could. -- appear to be a key differentiator of recent performance. we're looking at some of them currencies. the taiwanese dollar, the yuan, the korean won, underperforming. >> thank you for that. julie and sally. let's get to middle east markets as well. our equities reporter standing by. philippe a, 70 saudi shocks -- saudi stocks finish their highest since may of 20 72 between 19. >> good morning yousef. it is quite hard to see what is going to be the direction for saudi markets. given the geopolitical concerns that come with those attacks on the oil facility, in the eastern part of the country. at the same time we can tell that these are not nearly as ser

secretary of state antony blinken made several proposals one of which involved a leading role for turkey russia will hold off afghan talks next week which moscow says will not rival previous negotiations in doha turkey's foreign minister has said egypt set out any chips have restarted diplomatic level contacts after years of disrupted ties the 2 countries asked for a swat over a range of issues including the war in libya where the facts rival sides ties deteriorated in 2013 after then president mohamed morsi was overthrown in a military court in south africa tributes are being paid to the zulu king who has died at the age of 72 is a donation says good was early teen he had been in hospital for weeks to treat diabetes kings only teeny was the leader of south africa's largest stride those are the headlines coming up next al jazeera investigations stay with us. this week some of the 4. 50 soon go over to the case. and i want to get to the 2 least distance. which is the media in the middle east for this. evening. this in. the months since the only the only. small it's believed. that used to. be use

move, they are moving stronger, a headline from the bank of russia, they see a rate hike possible at one of the next meetings. brazil first, turkey in russia in the future. tom: this is a new thing. jonathan: em does not have the luxury. you know how this works. when one goes, the cycle starts to build. tom: the way this works is damien comes on and talk to us about emerging markets, but we really do not care because we really want him to talk about the brackets in college basketball. i want him to talk about perdue and gonzaga. i need to talk to him about the brackets. jonathan: maybe a rate hike coming from the bank of russia. equities up 11 points. tom: john, you are laughing at me. jonathan: we've both got to boiler up in case the manager supports perdue. we do this every year. tom: where is purdue? i ola -- iowa? jonathan: this is bloomberg. ritika: the first talks between the biden administration and china turned tough almost immediately. antony blinken raised concerns about cyberattacks and treatment of muslim minorities and beijing's control over hong kong. chinese officials criticized the u.s. over the killing of black a

the leaders of turkey and russia remotely inaugurated the construction of a third nuclear reactor in southern turkey today. turkish president erdogan and russian president blood near putin are vowing to continue their close cooperation. president erdogan says the plant will launch turkey "into the league of nuclear energy countries." then nations have been working on these plans since 2010. -- then nations have been working on these plans since 2010. global news, 24 hours a day, on air and on bloomberg quicktake, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. i'm mark crumpton. this is bloomberg. amanda: i'm amanda lange. welcome to "bloomberg markets." >> i'm matt miller. we are joined by our bloomberg and bnn bloomberg audiences. here are the top stories we are bringing you from the bloomberg terminal. the u.s. house moments ago started voting on president biden's plan, $1.9 trillion stimulus package. we will bring you the latest. we will speak to david rubenstein on stimulus as well as inequality and his exclusive conversation with world bank president da

turkey has really tried to play both ends against each other flirting a little bit with u.s. and nato partners flirting with russia when it comes to arms deals remember turkey got punished and criticized for forgetting several 100 of russian air defense missiles when usually turkey wants to be in the umbrella of nato and would turn to the u.s. or nato partners for arms deals now looking towards russia its involvement in syria its involvement in libya so turkey is a very problematic case for the u.s. but we should also put it into some context this is not new there's been many issues with turkey over the years as a nato member as well as other nato members and also intra nato disagreements especially greece and turkey which have a long history of comp. and yet they're both partners. so this is a bouncing a lot as you pointed out there it's a rock and a hard place there are many rocks and many hard places right now with no u.s. and nato including turkey and looking beyond russia to the middle east and no easy solutions in all of this as the world as we globally are experiencing a pandemic as well as well and climate

control over different territories swinging between the governments on the opposition groups eisel turkey russia earns the united states the governments now has control over most of the country seen here in reds although i still face or still room the deserts in the east the kurdish majority syrian democratic forces control the 2nd largest territory seen here in yellow with supports from the united states u.s. also backed rebels in a small area on the border of jordan and iraq most opposition fighters were transported to aleppo and it live as part of a cease fire deal on the opposition group hired to here are sham controls a small air. area and on the turkey syria border turkish troops are taking control in the area shown here in green where they support opposition fighters the free syrian army. well she is the executive director of syria and a former member of the syrian national council he joins us now from brussels thank you for being here on the news we've just outlined what states your country is enough to 10 years of civil war it doesn't look any costs conclusion at this stage what does th

the rise of al qaida and eisel and resulted in geo political battles between countries including turkey russia the united arab emirates and egypt all competing for influence and power in the strategically important an oil rich country on the mediterranean sea the new unity administration led by interim prime minister abdul hamid debate is expected to replace the un recognized government of national accord based in tripoli and a parallel administration in the east controlled by the warlord khalifa haftar. fighting intensified in april 2019 when half the us forces which included various foreign militia groups supported by russian mercenaries launched a full scale offensive on tripoli in june last year the united states africa command said there were around 2000 russian most and raise fighting alongside hopped as men many of them working for a company called the wagner group which is owned by a close friend of russian president vladimir putin. the un security council has called on the estimated tens of thousands of foreign fighters including those who have fought on behalf of the un backed govern

syria and we're 4 years on from the russian led a start the process is bringing together russia iran and turkey to try and find a political solution to the crisis in that country but we seem to be no further on the survey lavrov russian's foreign russia's foreign minister said today this meeting between the 3 countries was another way of trying to achieve a political solution for this start a process if the russians had their way would ultimately lead probably with the assad regime staying in charge we have the m.r.i. artie's yesterday or earlier this week calling for syria to be real out reintroduced into the arab league the catheters when asked about that weren't interested in seeing syria at this stage back in the arab league and turkey which of course is not in the arab league but it said never to have a soul of the foreign minister of turkey said that the syrian regime wants a new military solution he doesn't believe in a political solution so despite least 3 countries getting together no indication that there are any closer than they ever have been to finding a political solution to what'

syria and we're 4 years on from the russian led a start the process is bringing together russia iran and turkey to try and find a political solution to the crisis in that country but we seem to be no further on the survey lavrov russian's foreign russia's foreign minister said today this meeting between the 3 countries was another way of trying to achieve a political solution for this start a process if the russians had their way would ultimately lead probably with the assad regime staying in charge we have the m.r.i. artie's yesterday or earlier this week calling for syria to be real out reintroduced into the arab league the catheters when asked about that weren't interested in seeing syria at this stage back in the arab league and turkey which of course is not in the arab league but it said never to have a soul of the foreign minister of turkey said that the syrian regime wants a new military solution it doesn't believe in a political solution so despite least 3 countries getting together no indication that there are any closer than they ever have been to finding a political solution to what'

control of the different territories swinging between the government and opposition groups eisel turkey russia and the united states the government now has control over most of the country seen here in bridge although i still find it still wrong the days it in the east a kurdish majority syrian democratic forces control the 2nd largest territory seen here in yellow with support from the united states the u.s. also backs rebels in a small area on the border of jordan and iraq most opposition fighters were transported to aleppo and is part of a cease fire deal opposition groups. control a small area and on the turkey syria border turkish troops have taken control of the areas in green where they support opposition forces the free syrian army. before all of this we're joined by while the office in washington d.c. he served as a senior advisor to samantha power president obama's ambassador to the united nations thank you so much for your time given how divided syria is we just explained it there how many competing and trenched power is there in the country now what's your assessment for the future

turkey on thursday. annmarie: friday it is japan, russia, and others including indonesia. let's get to talk more about the fed with seed. he says well the steepening yield curve has been fast, we expect rising yields to be the focus, a new equilibrium in the equity fixed income space. what is this new equilibrium? what do you see on the 10 year yield? do you agree with the kind of acceleration? >> we have to step back. we were looking at the 10 year yield, there was little anticipation we were looking at 1.5, 1.6. at this point, the amount of stimulus being pushed, the market is repricing that. there is no doubt we will see baseline inflation shock, or at least spike in the next few months. what effect to the stimulus check will carry through and the stability of inflation, that will determine the path of equities. if we see markets begin stabilizing, pushing higher in yield up to 1.7, 1.8, we will see pricing of the fund -- the front and back about 25 basis points. what we have seen is the market has led the fed in terms of hikes. what we are looking for is what is the fr

and -- an analysis of the turkey story later in this program. relations with russia top of the agenda, whether to block exports to other countries, or to the u.k. specifically, could be on the agenda. coming up, we look at your stocks to watch, including julius baer. more on that and the other stocks in focus next. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ anna: welcome back to the european market open. nine minutes until the start of the session. some materials have been materializing, some evidence in the ftse 100. let's get the individual stocks we're watching this morning, or specific stocks. we're watching the german stock market, i guess on a number of fronts, what they are doing to lockdown is of course crucial. one of our college is writing about how autos and strong performance of others last week set them in a good place for german outperformance. i guess your focus is on the stair home names. dani: i think it shows underneath the surface, there could be a lot of dispersion between the different sectors. vw has been on a tear after their announcement of turning to electric ca

just one shot would help speed up europe's vaccine rollout the foreign ministers of the cattle russia and turkey have held talks in doha they focused on finding a way to deliver humanitarian aid to people in syria russia and turkey back opposing sides in syria's war china has approved changes to the democratic participation in hong kong's elections its annual national people's congress pass new laws to veto and screen candidates that follows must protest in the 7 autonomous territory in 2019 calling for greater freedoms the us church has reinstated a 3rd degree murder charge against the former policeman accused of killing george floyd us on top of a 2nd degree murder and manslaughter charge due to be brought to trial at the end of the month the form officer is accused of killing floyd by kneeling on his neck for around 9 minutes because you're full of those stories on our website at al jazeera dot com as updated through the day i'm back with a new 30 minute stay with us next inside stories of. he was a popular leftist leader and president in brazil but with a criminal record now lula da silva co

during the russian russian bombing so this is a tough situation this is a critical situation turkey and russia have some partnership they have this $400.00 mi saw as a quiz ition but when it comes to leave and syria this fight they have cooperation their total on the different pages of the politics and apparently the part of meters of the syrian conflict is going to be changing soon adrien sort of course here to reporting live from istanbul so the many thanks indeed a hearing from me on laws are stood civilian leader aung san suu kyi has been pushed back by more than a week as a country reels after more bloodshed she's been detained since the jump out of power on february 1st. at least 39 people were killed on sunday that's the highest number of deaths in a single day in the crackdown on anti cooper testers the military has imposed martial more in parts of young go on mars biggest city let's hear more from our 0 scott hyla who is with us live from bangkok so the military continues its deadly crackdown against the protests and scores as we were saying more martial law has been introduced. and y

in doha the diplomats focused on finding a way to deliver humanitarian aid to people in syria russia and turkey back opposing sides in the war now entering its 10th year job rather than cut the we are contributing with our efforts for a sustainable political stability for syria of course unfortunately the conflict has been going on for 10 years and we have witnessed many unfortunate events our wishes to see that syria's legitimate request will find a result within the criteria of the united nations and turkey. denmark has temporarily halted the use of the covert 1000 vaccine manufactured by astra zeneca that was after a small number of cases of blood clots occurred tao over denmark's health ministry says it isn't it clear whether the costs were linked to the vaccine and i'm rico says foreign minister. has died marking the 2nd time in a year one of the nation's leaders has died in office because of illness. as a possible successor to president ouattara you're upset with headlines on al-jazeera i'll have more news for you after witness midnight stay with us. i'm. pretty sure. the mosquito mcmulle

conflict in syria supporting the rebels now hold off on the along the northern border with with turkey and russia backing the outside regime on both those groups on different sides of the conflict in libya as well the timing is quite interesting quite useful for the russians it comes a week after the u.s. release that intelligence report pointing the finger saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon for allegedly ordering the killing of jamal khashoggi in $28.00 of the u.s. suspended the sales of weapons to the saudis and the m.r. artie's weapons that might be used in the conflict of yemen so a lot of robberies here while the u.s. is the by the administration is essentially recalibrating its relationships with some countries in the gulf states then it's myth or following that does it for us here and i have thank you very much ban it. well mining giant norilsk nickel has paid a record fine of $2000000000.00 for an oil spill that caused one of russia's worst environmental disaster is last year a storage tank is a power plant in siberia it leaked $21000.00 tons of diesel into rivers and lakes in the ar

wants to go there's an international push to get other countries involved in the negotiations russia turkey as the talks in doha appear to be somewhat deadlocked this is been a very thorny peace process can turkey end russia's involvement do you think produced tangible action movement can it bring about change. whenever urban insurgency or an internal conflict is internationalized it presents opportunities and problems one of the opportunities that the internationalization brings is it sort of creates an opportunity for mediators to get involved and there's always an opportunity and a time to turn sponsor states into actual mediators within the process so again if there is anyone who benefits from insurgency and fight within a protestant when you bring them on the table and try to protect their interests within of course settlement country or all of that to understand it will come to exist in. it will obviously help reach a resolution because conflicts can be settled but conflicts need to be resolved because if we settle the of one problem it will be a very temporary fix that will eventuall

i hike from brazil, a hike from turkey, and russia saying we might join the party in the next couplef days. . more still to come. in the next hour, brian levitt, invesco global market strategist. heard on bloomberg radio, seen on bloomberg tv, this is "bloomberg surveillance." ♪ ritika: with the first word news, i'm ritika gupta. the first top-level talks between the biden adminstration and china were bound to be confrontational. the question is, can the two sides find a way to cooperate? in alaska, different mats from the world's largest economies criticized each other -- diplomats from the world's largest economies criticized each other on everything from the virus to trade. the biden adminstration is considering whether to impose more sanctions to block construction of a gas pipeline from russia to germany. the nord stream 2 pipeline is almost complete. the u.s. may sanction the project's parent company. penalties on other companies are also a possibility. the european union has a chance to put coronavirus vaccinations back on track today. regulators have given astrazeneca's vacci

the broader story forem hikes in, brazil, hikes in turkey, more to come from russia as well. em has struggled with this move higher in treasury yields over the past few months. lisa: the idea that turkey is the story today after the fed did not extend that exemption to capital relief for banks last week. there hasn't been a massive disruption in treasuries in addition to what we have seen despite $206 billion of treasury options we are expecting this week. 9:00 a.m., we will hear from the fed chair jay powell speaking at a bank of international settlement conference with a whole host of other top liners. also today, tony blinken, secretary of state is traveling to meet nato allies in european leaders. i am curious to see how much discussion there is about vaccination, the rollout which affects everything, global trade and diplomacy as well as some of the unifying elements to combat china's sense in the global stage. at 10 a.m., u.s. home sales. the february data is so messy. we are in between payments from stimulus, in between a possible true reopening and here we are, what ca

how they can work together to stabilize the situation and they call for cooperation from iran turkey india russia china they're talking about the regional powers that are involved there who have to have a stake in that future so as max is saying the u.s. and russia cooperating on counterterrorism no you've got to look at this even more broadly that was the initial idea behind the united nations strike on trees would get together and work together to create peace. and maybe this could be a starting point. that biden people as bad as they are the foreign policy national security team in my view you know the. sullivans and newlands and and those folks. there are one area which they were good i thought was on iran these were the people who supported the iran nuclear deal this is before this is going to obama's yes under obama because they were all in the obama administration although all these folks they're mostly retreads in a sense and they don't represent a new kind of thinking but at least when it comes to iran compared to the trump people the only thing they could agree on was they were all of u

we see these authoritarian governments around the world in turkey, hungary, russia, other places that resemble the classic fascist model that was so frightening and brought so much suffering to the world. i think some of the people that participated in that attack in the capitol, extremists what they say and the glorification of the authoritarian lr.ririan . from an independent judiciary, a free press, a civil service, to a democratic congress. all of these things are quite frightening. they have echoes of history. you have to pay attention to that. host: this is jonathan greenblatt, he is the ceo of the anti-defamation league. you wantg, subtitle e, testing. contract tracing activities, section 2402, >> u.s. senate working on the covid relief plan calling the american rescue plan. they were tied 50-50. and vice president harris came and broke the tie and third tie-breaking point. senator ron johnson waived to reading of the bill and looks like the clerks in the senate are under way reading that 600-page bill that is expected to last five hours or so before any debate begins on the $1

so it's important to russia for that and turkey is important to russia because as someone mentioned in the questions is a member of nato, so far. it locked anti-ant -- anti-ballistic missiles from russia and when you buy a system like that you are buying maintenance and that will go years and decades into the future. this is problematic to coast the russians are doing it in a nato country. what else are they gaining access to so turkey has been brought into a program to develop chats with nato and the united states as a result. we can call it that but the friend may relationship with russia is stabilized. >> like any good friend amy -- ben trotter is asking, he would like to know if the composition to putin's claim differs in terms of foreign-policy goals or methods? the. >> well there is organized opposition pointblank. putin thought it was a great idea. one of those guys is named gorbachev and the others named navalny so you know there's that. in terms of opposition that has existed in the past there are people who are opposed to russia having gone into syria as opposed to focusing o

proposed bringing in a number of other countries including iran including russia including china he also proposed a meeting in turkey and i understand russia has proposed a meeting in russia which i imagine is well intended but i'm afraid given the us political climate and the extreme demonization of russia could actually end up hurting if there's an agreement made but it's an agreement made in russia the screams in washington to keep the troops in and worse are pretty predictable and of quickly secretary blinken saying that may the 1st time for withdrawal could happen yes or no when it happens i wouldn't bet on it but i'll do everything in my power to make it happen then if not sooner. ok i won't hold you for that whatever happens we'll keep you posted thanks very much for now for joining us on the program thank you. up next the controversial interrogation techniques seeing innocent people admit to crimes they didn't commit confessions is next on the international. join me every thursday on the alex i'm unsure when i'll be speaking to a guest of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then.

attack in the rebel stronghold of is being blamed on government forces a ceasefire organized by russia and turkey is supposed to protect the area. yet more deaths to mourn in a conflict without end days after syria marks 10 years since the outbreak of its civil war these people died from artillery fire into the pocket in northwest syria one of the few areas outside the assad regime to control. the shelling once again a yearlong ceasefire between rebels and the regime the bombardment also hit a hospital killing 7 civilians including one child. these images show the survivors being led to safety. and. i arrived this morning for my shift at the hospital as soon as i got to the entrance the bombing began it was a terrible sight the wounded and the dead were on the ground it was painful to see . the heavily destroyed it live on the turkish border remains a thorn and assad signed a ceasefire brokered by ankara remains in place but it has not prevented intimates and shelling and strikes by the regime and its russian allies nearly 3000000 refugees crowd the enclave hemmed in from all sides they have nowh

were injured in the explosion at tara it comes despite a cease fire in the region backed by russia and turkey. u.s. defense secretary lloyd austin has met afghan president ghani in an unannounced visit to discuss the afghan peace process u.s. troops are due to leave afghanistan by may 1st but president joe biden has said it would be tough to meet that deadline. people have been voting in the republic of congo's presidential election to nice us through this so is expected to extend his 36 year hold on power the main opposition candidate is seriously ill with covert 19 and is being flown to friends for medical treatment. mourners in tanzania have been paying their last respects to late president john michael foully following the announcement of his death from heart failure on wednesday the popular leader had not been seen in public for 3 weeks fueling speculation he was being treated for corona virus by gov fully had him self downplayed the dangers of the pandemic. they didn't believe it when they heard the news. but seeing his body lying in state the grief becomes too much. more news of tanzan

that so that they could repair trade and of course you have on the opposition control and turkey iran and russia have come together through a son and such a peace process is to hold peace and at that it was violated from time to time it was an on and off situation but for those areas under control of the syrian national army its former name f.s.a. the free syrian army those places. were to be were to be improved by the by the local law enforcement backed by the turkish military however now we see that recently those areas under for safe control are being targets of those who are like last night in the syrian government forces have fired ballastic missiles to northern aleppo especially to a risk close to jobless an elbow bend the infrastructure was them and so now people question is it's only that we discuss whether the cease fire is going to hold or is it all. so those safe zones that that were the design for the syrians to be to repair to it so turkey's presence aired on of wrote an article for bloomberg to it was published today in a he's making a call to the west that they they should help tu

recently those areas have been targeted twice within the last one the week so where the trio of turkey iran and russia have had an agreement and. they have signed the cease fire and although no cease fire on going in and that it was ok i mean sometimes the opposition was violating the cease fire sometimes it was the syrian government or the russian airstrikes violating the cease fire but those they realize under the opposition control now they're not safe then there is the question these people will they be safe enough to go back to those places if there has never been safe for them to go back probably but now even these these places are being discussed because in those places not only civilians but also the military military members of turkey and turkey is a side of that trio they are being literally targeted. like what happened last night bob and around the areas that have been known to be safe for the civilians they have been targeted so now everyone everybody is questioning whether this cease fire is not only an adlib but in the other places will be the last thing going on after leaving 10 years o

purchase i should say of us were hundreds by turkey from from russia that. the they had the ability to be able to counter the f. $35.00 is there and so the but they if they want something is going to dog fight and b. be more. and conduct itself more with other other aircraft then they're going to have to go with a lesser version that's more versatile the f. $35.00 is probably a great standoff aircraft. but it and yet it still hasn't got all the stealth characteristics in fact some of the stealth capabilities can be are losing the capabilities and the and the they're noticing damage as they can put it up to full throttle for example with up back some of the techno technology and stealth technology it's on a so it so much has been jammed into this airplane over a short period of time that oftentimes the technology as it is isn't really there they're developing it as as they're trying to make it operational on this seems to be the problem i'm down to about a minute but you've had such a wary eye on that neighborhood that i must ask about a hot spot this new adm

yemen and to syria turkey and qatar on the side of the syrian rebels holed up along the turkey syria border russia has been backing the assad regime and in libya in qatar on one side of the fight and the russians on the other so much for them to discuss but what's also interesting is that this visit comes just a week after the u.s. released that intelligence report suggesting alleging that mohamed bin solomon crown prince of saudi arabia ordered the killing of jamal khashoggi 28 tina and the u.s. to stop the sale of weapons that might be used in the war in weapon war in yemen weapons of might be used by the u.a.e. and the saudis so while the u.s. is recalibrating its relationship with some countries in the gulf russia is here on the ground and it's nothing with all the latest from that visit here in doha thank you so much bonnie. still ahead here on al-jazeera china's national people's congress has wrapped up we'll tell you about some of the new laws passed and what it could mean for hong kong. struggling to survive why business isn't bob way say the easing of coronavirus restrictions may do less

the bided administration sent a strongly worded letter last week to move the talks to turkey and to try and russia everything now and actually make something happen including a cease fire all right thanks so much for joining us thank you. some sports news now and in the bundesliga. looking to get ambitions for european qualification back on track as they travel to explore to open match day 25 but the hosts proved too strong for blood winning 3 to one outspoken great hahn sealed the victory with the best of the goals in the 89th minute outspoken now looks safe from relegation. without a blunder sneak a win since january. it watching news live from berlin coming up next as reporter what about an initiative that's bringing a village and field back to paris and don't forget you can get all the latest news and information on our website that's. called and you can follow us on instagram and twitter d w news i'm annie mackinnon in that and thanks for watching. i'm sure there are those as there are. in some. of. the debris of. how does a virus spread. why do we panic and. just through the tech.

it would be great, speaking about saudi influences if turkey and russia were not fighting a proxy war in the middle of libya. this is part of the whole dominance thing. sorry, just one more quick piece. because of the post-world war ii world where the u.s. was so dominant, certainly the post-cold war world, there seems to be this expectation that there was no problem in the world that we could solve. and if it wasn't south, it was because we didn't want to. i will never forget being in a refugee camp circle 2013, i met with some syrian refugees. to put it bluntly, they were passed. they were like why are you letting us do this? why is the u.s. choosing not to solve our problems in syria. that was basically their position. i explained, there is nothing we can do. the problems go beyond the u.s. coming in and going ok, let's make this work. as we were working with the rest of the world, we can't be dominant, we are not going to try and dominate, that is good, but the rest of the world has to recognize they can't expect us to solve every single problem. it's a complicated world and we ha